4155 - pnigó

Strong's Concordance

Original word: πνίγω
Transliteration: pnigó
Definition (short): choke
Definition (full): to choke

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. verb
Definition: to choke
NASB Translation: choke (1), drowned (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Strengthened from pneo; to wheeze, i.e. (causative, by implication) to throttle or strangle (drown) -- choke, take by the throat.

see GREEK pneo

KJV: But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
NASB: "But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe.'
KJV: And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
NASB: Jesus gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they were drowned in the sea.